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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
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Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is it is when it is put to the test.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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